Faculty List, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland

Department Faculty

	Howard R. Baum, Professor, Ph.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering 3106D J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-8853 \| hrbaum@umd.edu \| Home Page

	Marino di Marzo, Professor and Chair, Ph.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Research Interests: Transport phenomena in change of phase; fire suppression with aqueous agents; thermal hydraulics for nuclear reactor safety. 3104B J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-5257 \| marino@umd.edu \| Home Page

	Andre Marshall, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Research Interests: Characterization of turbulent flow transport in fires and flames using laser diagnostics, infrared (IR) imaging, and advanced multi-phase CFD models. 3104H J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-8507 \| awmarsh@umd.edu \| Home Page

	James A. Milke, Professor, and Associate Chair, P.E., Ph.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Research Interests: Smoke management and analyzing the response of materials exposed to fire conditions. For more see home page. 3104F J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-3995 \| milke@umd.edu \| Home Page

	James G. Quintiere, J.L. Bryan Professor, Ph.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Research Interests: Compartment fire behavior, fire induced flows, fire growth on materials and scale model studies. 3104G J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-3993 \| jimq@umd.edu \| Home Page

	Peter B. Sunderland, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Research Interests: Hydrogen safety, soot formation, fire emissions, combustion diagnostics, microgravity combustion, laminar flames. For more see home page. 3104E J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-3095 \| pbs@umd.edu \| Home Page

	Arnaud Trouvé, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Research Interests: Fire Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fire and Explosions. For more see home page. 3104D J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-8209 \| atrouve@umd.edu \| Home Page

Adjunct Faculty

	Takashi Kashiwagi, Research Professor, Ph.D. Research Interests: Experimental and theoretical studies of ignition, flame spread, and burning of polymeric materials, flame retardants, propellant combustion, shock tube, combustion in a microgravity environment. Phone: (301) 975-6699 \| takashi.kashiwagi@nist.gov \| Home page

Emeritus Faculty

	Vincent Brannigan, Professor Emeritus, J.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Research Interests: Product liability and government regulation of technology, with a special emphasis on the problem of dealing with novel technologies. 3106C J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-6667 \| firelaw@umd.edu \| Home Page

	John L. Bryan, Professor Emeritus, Ed.D. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Served as Chair and Professor of Fire Protection Engineering from the establishment of the department in 1956 until his retirement from the University of Maryland in 1993. Phone: (301)695-6796 \| jlbryanprof@verizon.net \| Home Page

	Frederick W. Mowrer, Associate Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., P.E. Dept. of Fire Protection Engineering Served on the faculty in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering from 1987 until his retirement in December 2008. He is currently serving as a visiting professor in Continuing Education and University Outreach at California Polytechnic State University, where he is spearheading the establishment of a fire protection engineering graduate program. For more see home page. 3106C J.M. Patterson Bldg. \| x5-3992 \| fmowrer@umd.edu \| Home Page

	Steven M. Spivak, Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. Served as Chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering from 1993 until March 2001. He has taken "early retirement" and is continuing an active professional career from Falls Church, Virginia phone (703) 845-8696 \| ss60@umd.edu \| Home Page

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